SHOCKING VIDEO: IRAQ FOR SALE: BLACKWATER USA

Most of us have heard about BLACKWATER,USA the security firm that has millions of dollars in contracts to carry out security services in Iraq.

This video provides an insiders look at just how BLACKWATER, USA operates and how they have turned an illegal war into a huge profit making venture.

While the mainstream media focuses on whether we should drill for oil off the coast of U.S. or in Alaska, or whether health care should be provided to ALL American citizens, the U.S. government is shelling out millions of dollars to BLACKWATER, USA to provide security for U.S. contractors like Halliburton and KBR who already are making big bucks off the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is also important to remember Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO for HALLIBURTON and its subsidiary KBR before returning to politics.

Watch this eye-opening VIDEO here: http://www.youtube.com/v/N83BdpNPvgw&hl=en

GUNMAN IN IRAQ KILLS 2 U.S. SOLDIERS, WOUNDS 4

BAGHDAD - A disgruntled local official opened fire Monday on U.S. soldiers attending a municipal council meeting southeast of Baghdad, killing two of them and wounding four other Americans, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

Gunman in Iraq kills 2 American soldiers, wounds 4
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer Mon Jun 23, 4:18 PM ET
http://tinyurl.com/3sgycg

The assailant died in a hail of gunfire after the attack, which occurred in the town of Madain, also known as Salman Pak, about 15 miles south of Baghdad in an area with a history of Sunni-Shiite tension.

U.S. officials confirmed two American soldiers died and that four Americans, including a civilian interpreter, were wounded.

Iraqi police and witnesses said the attack took place in front of the Madain municipal building where the Americans had come to confer with local authorities.

U.S. officials said the Americans were leaving the building when the assailant opened fire about 1 p.m. However, the U.S. officials released no further details except that the assailant was killed.
"The attacker came out of his car with an AK-47 rifle in his hand and started firing on the American soldiers until he was killed by the return fire," said Hussein al-Dulaimi, 37, who owns an agricultural machine shop across the street.

Al-Dulaimi, other residents and a police official said the attacker had been a Sunni member of the municipal council until he was ousted by Shiites during sectarian violence following the February 2006 bombing of a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad.

But the Interior Ministry said the gunman was still an active council member.
The motive for the attack was unclear, and ministry officials were investigating whether the gunman had ties to Sunni insurgents.

The Madain area was a center of Saddam Hussein's biological and chemical weapons program. It also includes the tomb of Salman al-Farsi, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad.
The tomb has been the source of sectarian tension in recent years, with both Sunni and Shiite religious organizations competing for control of the shrine, which used to draw pilgrims from across the Muslim world.

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CBS' LARA LOGAN TELLS "DAILY SHOW" SOLDIERS IN IRAQ FEEL FORGOTTEN: PLUS VIDEO OF LOGAN RIPPING INTO FOX NEWS' LAURA INGRAHAM. DON'T MISS THESE 2 VIDS

Lara Logan is the Chief Foreign Correspondent for the CBS News and she recently appeared on the Comedy Central "Daily Show" hosted by John Stewart. Logan, who has spent years in Iraq and Afghanistan, talks about how the bosses at the network try to avoid putting on anything that has to do with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Logan told Stewart the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan "feel forgotten."

Logan's appearance on the "Daily Show" received a good deal of media attention because she used a expletive deleted word to describe how the network bosses treat stories coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Logan, who is stunningly beautiful, describes how she breaks the ice with troops when she climbs into a Humvee to go out on patrol in a war zone.

Watch the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/v/M8skwVT6jWk&hl=en

And watch the video of Lara Logan dish it out to Howard Kurtz of CNN's "Reliable Sources" by explaining to Kurtz how she can't report stories about Iraq rebuilding because it will bring on attacks on the project.

Logan also rips into Laura Ingraham, who now has her own show on FOX NEWS called "Just In," for saying reporters like Logan sit on a balcony in Iraq and report on the war. I doubt if Ingraham would ever have Logan on her idiotic show after hearing what Logan has to say about her.

Watch the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/v/6I420_fPM2E&hl=en

BREAKING NEWS: MORE DEATHS OF U.S. TROOPS AND MORE VIOLENCE IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

The mainstream media doesn't want you to know about any of this, but we feel it is our duty to the thousands of young Americans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to tell the TRUTH about what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. For more information on each U.S. death and each incident of violence, click on the name or subject highlighted in BLUE.

War News for Monday, June 23, 2008
MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Coalition Force soldier (Multi-National Division – North) in three roadside bomb attacks on Coalition force patrols in Diyala province.. Five other soldier were wounded in the attacks.

IC Publications is reporting the death of a U.S. soldier from small arms fire in Madain Iraq on Monday, June 23rd. Five additional soldiers were wounded in the attack as reported by the U.S. military.CJTF-101 is reporting the deaths of four coalition soldiers from an IED attack in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan on Saturday, June 21st.

Two other soldiers were wounded in the attack.NATO is reporting the death of one ISAF soldier from an IED attack in Paktika Province, Afghanistan on Saturday, June 21st. Four additional soldiers were wounded in the attack.

Nowe Media is reporting the soldier is from the Polish contingency was an officer and the attack was 40 kilometres from Wazi Khwa base.CJTF-101 is reporting the death of a coalition soldier in an IED attack while conducting combat operations in Farah province, Afghanistan on Friday, June 20th. Two other soldiers and one Afghani civilian were wounded in the attack.CJTF-101 is reporting the death of a coalition service member in a suicide attack and small arms fire in Helmand province, Afghanistan on Friday, June 20th. One Afghani civilian was killed in the attack.

The DoD is reporting a new death previously unreported by CENTCOM. Hospitalman Dustin Kelby Burnett. He died while conducting combat operations in Farah Province, Afghanistan on Friday, June 20th. No other details were released.

PNC News is reporting the death of a civilian security company personal. Christopher Quitugua died in a convoy accident in Iraq on an undisclosed date. No other details were released. According to Pacific Daily News Christopher Quitugua's grandparents, Albert A. Quitugua and Maria C. Quitugua, their grandson and three others were in a vehicle in a convoy when a tire blowout caused the vehicle to flip.OIF/OEF fatalities.

PDFJune 20 airpower summary:June 21 airpower summary:A Sunni legislator said on Monday that the security agreement to be signed between Baghdad and Washington would allow the latter to attack any country from Iraqi territories. "The Iraqi-U.S. agreement contains several items that impinge upon the sovereignty of Iraq, including the right of the U.S. forces in Iraq to attack any nation and raid any Iraqi house and arrest people without prior permission from the Iraqi government," Khalaf al-Alyan, a member of parliament from the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq.

Reporters Say Networks Block War Reportsvideo: Afghanistan: Lost in translation

Reported Security incidents:Baghdad:#1: A roadside bomb targeted a National Police patrol in Waziriyah, near the cotton wool plant intersection at 11.30 a.m. Monday, injuring three policemen.
#2: A roadside bomb targeted a US military convoy in Qahira, near the water reservoir at noon. No casualties were reported.
#3: A roadside bomb targeted a US military convoy in Salahuddin Square, Kathimiyah neighbourhood at around noon. No casualties were reported.
#4: A roadside bomb targeted a US military convoy in Adil neighbourhood at around 1 p.m. No casualties were reported.
Diyala Prv:#1: At least 10 people were killed when insurgents fired off a spate of mortar rounds which fell on houses in Iraq's restive province of Diyala, officials told AFP on Monday. The projectiles, fired during the night in the town of Al-Adhaim, were apparently aimed at the police headquarters and the mayor's office but fell instead on people's homes, a government security official said. The mortars killed at least 10 people and wounded around 20, the official added. The attack was confirmed by Abdul Jabbar al-Obeidi, mayor of Adhaim, which is about 70 kilometres (43 miles) north of the provincial capital Baquba.

Kut:#1: A woman was wounded when a mortar shell landed in the heart of al-Nasr neighborhood, western Kut, on Monday, police said. "The woman was rushed to a hospital from the mortar shell of 120 mm., which also damaged a civilian vehicle," a security source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq. "The shell perhaps targeted the Delta base, where the Multi-National Force (MNF) troops are stations in Wassit," the source said, adding the police started to investigate the incident.The Delta base is 15 km western Kut city.

Mosul:#1: A suicide car bomb attacked a police patrol in the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, wounding 14 people, including 4 policemen, a provincial police source said on Monday. The attack occurred late on Sunday in the al-Wihda neighborhood in southern Mosul, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

#2: Three Iraqi army servicemen, including an officer in the rank of major, were wounded while trying to dismantle an improvised explosive device (IED) in northern Mosul on Monday, an official army source said. The IED went off while a bomb squad was trying to defuse it in al-Rashidiya neighborhood, seriously wounding Maj. Fakher Braori, the commander of the Iraqi army's 3rd contingent, 8th Brigade, and two other soldiers," the source told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq. "Maj. Braori lost a hand and a leg," the source said, adding the wounded were rushed to a hospital for treatment. He did not give further information on the incident.

#3: A policeman and a woman were killed and two civilians were wounded in an armed attack in western Mosul, a security source said on Monday. "Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint in Mosul al-Jadida region in western Mosul, killing one policeman and a woman and injuring two more, including a child," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq.

#4: Gunmen killed a university student in a drive-by shooting in northern Mosul, police said.#5: Gunmen killed an off-duty policemen at a market in western Mosul, police said.

Al Anbar Prv:#1: The U.S. military will transfer control of security in Iraq's Anbar province to Iraqi forces this week.

Afghanistan:#1: The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan says it has killed 55 militants in the east of the country.A coalition statement said the battle took place on Friday in Paktika province, which borders Pakistan. It said militants ambushed a patrol with rocket and gun fire, prompting troops to fire back and call in warplanes.
#2: Suspected pro-Taliban Militants kidnapped 17 Pakistani policemen from posts on the road through the Khyber Pass, the latest insecurity on the vital supply route for Western forces in Afghanistan. Militants attacked four checkposts on the winding road through the pass that leads to the Afghan border on Sunday night, kidnapping the policemen and wounding one in a brief exchange of fire, a senior government official in the region said. "Our 17 khasadar are missing," said the official in Landikotal, the main town in the Khyber region, referring to members of special police forces raised in ethnic Pashtun tribal agencies.
#3: An Afghan official says police and U.S.-led forces attacked militants planting a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan and one insurgent and two civilians were killed. Zalmay Dadak, mayor of Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, said police shot dead one suspect shortly before midnight Sunday and gave chase to the others. Dadak said a helicopter from the U.S.-led coalition fired at the militants but also hit a house in a village, killing a man and a young child.
#4: At least 11 Shia Muslims were executed by a rival Sunni group in Pakistan's Kurram agency, a volatile north-western tribal district, a tribal leader said Monday. The beheaded bodies of eight people from the Shia tribe Toori were found dumped in Arawali and three in the Sadda area of the district, tribal chief Ali Akbar told the Geo news television channel. All those killed were abducted Friday when a food convoy they were travelling with came under attack in the Sunni-dominated area of Pir Qayyum, about 30 kilometres south-east of Kurram's central town of Parachinar.
#5: Four people, including a security guard, were killed in the ambush. Later, government forces, backed by helicopter gunships, chased the attackers, killing five of them.
#6: NATO forces struck back with two artillery attacks across the border into Pakistan after attackers hiding there fired a barrage of rockets into Afghanistan that killed three children, officials said Sunday. NATO said five rockets were fired at one of its bases in Khost province overnight. At least one hit a house in Kunday, a small village that sits between two military bases, killing the three children. Another hit a NATO base, wounding an Afghan man, the alliance said. NATO said its forces responded "in self-defense" to the attack "with artillery fire on the launch site located about 300 meters (yards) inside Pakistan." In an earlier attack Saturday afternoon, three rounds of "indirect fire" — which often refers to mortar or rocket attacks — landed near a NATO outpost in neighboring Paktika province, the alliance said. Three more landed in an Afghan army compound. No casualties were reported. NATO said those rounds also came from inside Pakistan and responded with artillery fire. NATO reported that another overnight barrage of rockets aimed at a base in Khost — this time from inside Afghanistan — killed another civilian. It responded with an airstrike as well as artillery fire, it said.
#7: Record duo face Taliban rocket attack with Scots forces. (this is worth reading)
#8: TALIBAN fighters have ambushed a food convoy intended for foreign soldiers, killing one truck driver and wounding another, a local police chief said. The militants claimed four security guards hired to protect the convoy had been killed and several trucks were burned in Sunday's attack. But a police spokesmen in the province said only one driver was killed and another wounded in the ambush, which happened in the Showak district of Paktia province. Two vehicles were set on fire during the attack, the spokesman said. The convoy was on its way from Gardez to Khost city to carry food to US-led troops based in Khost province.
#9: A Canadian soldier remained in serious condition Sunday following a traffic accident Saturday afternoon when an RG-31, or Nyala, armoured vehicle rolled over in Kandahar City. Three soldiers were injured in the incident, which occurred at approximately 5:30 p.m. local time. One soldier was flown by helicopter to the multinational medical unit at Kandahar airfield. The two others were treated for minor injuries and did not require hospitalization.
#10: U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed several Taliban insurgents in an air and ground assault in Sangin district of southern Afghanistan on Sunday, a U.S. military statement said on Monday.
#11: Several militants were killed during U.S.led coalition operation in the southern Afghan province of Helmand of Sunday, U.S. military said in a statement on Monday.
#12: Police say a suspected suicide car bomb has killed four civilians in western Afghanistan.Police official Abdul Shuqur says the sports utility vehicle exploded at a market in the town of Shindand on Monday afternoon. Shuqur says witnesses told him that seconds before the blast the vehicle approached a convoy of foreign troops and that the troops opened fire on it. He says 12 other people were wounded.
Source: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/

HOTTEST VIDEO ABOUT IRAQ WAR EVER POSTED ON THIS BLOG. A MUST SEE FOR EVERY RED-BLOODED AMERICAN MALE

The video of a country western girl singing about her boyfriend in Iraq is the hottest video we have ever posted on this blog in the six months this blog has been up and running. The "hits" to my blog are coming in from all over and from what we hear the video is the talk of many of the GIs deployed to Iraq. You can watch it here. WOW!

http://www.youtube.com/v/6cAChVVVZaM&hl=en

CNN BREAKING NEWS: FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 16 IN IRAQ

Female bomber kills 16 near government complex

Story Highlights
Attack took place on a street authorities had sealed off last week
Police officers, women, children among casualties, officials say
Authorities say women are increasingly offering themselves up for suicide missions
Officials: Al Qaeda preys on women who are illiterate, religious, in financial straits

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/22/iraq.main/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A female suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded 40 Sunday when she detonated her explosives in a crowded area of central Baquba, police there said.
Police, women and children were among the casualties, according to the Diyala Military Operations command.

The attack happened near the main government complex in Baquba on a street that security officials had sealed off last week. Only official vehicles were being allowed in the area; civilian vehicles without special clearance were prohibited.

More than 20 female suicide bombers have carried out attacks in Iraq this year, a number much higher than in previous years. According to the U.S. military, women carried out eight bombings in 2007.

Authorities said that al Qaeda in Iraq is recruiting women and that increasing numbers of women are volunteering for missions.

The women are desperate and hopeless, officials said, and most have pre-existing ties to the insurgency. Their primary motive is revenge for a male family member killed by U.S. or Iraqi forces, the officials said.

"We do see certain members of cells attempting to persuade women -- specifically, in many cases, wives of those who have been killed as terrorists -- to conduct suicide operations," U.S. Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling said recently. His area of operations includes the volatile Diyala province.

Hertling's troops in Diyala have launched operations targeting relatives of suspected female bombers, as they attempt to break up the rings that are recruiting the women and girls.
Intelligence gathered from detainees indicates that al Qaeda in Iraq is looking for women with three main characteristics: those who are illiterate, are deeply religious or who have financial struggles.

Women in the last category often have money problems because they've lost the male head of the household, officials said.

Females always have played a role in the insurgency in Iraq, helping feed militants, hiding them in their homes and helping sneak weapons around the country.

They have proved to be effective in their operations because women are not to be searched by men for cultural and religious reasons.

The U.S. military has created a program called the Daughters of Iraq, similar to the U.S.-backed Sons of Iraq, across the Sunni regions of the country. The Daughters of Iraq are being trained to conduct searches of women.

In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide car bomber detonated near a police checkpoint, wounding at least 14 people -- including four policemen -- according to police.

Mosul is the capital of Nineveh province where Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki launched an ongoing offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq and other Sunni extremists last month.

Sunday's violence comes ahead of a U.S. report that will say violence in Iraq declined in the early part of this year, according to officials familiar with the report. (COMMENT: PERHAPS THE PENTAGON BETTER HOLD OFF ON THEIR GLOWING REPORT ABOUT HOW VIOLENCE IS DOWN IN IRAQ)

The Pentagon's upcoming report to Congress, which could be released as early as Monday, will cover events in Iraq from mid-February to mid-May.

COMMENT: THIS IS ALSO WHY SEN. JOHN McCAINS STATEMENT ABOUT PULLING OUT OF IRAQ WHEN THE VIOLENCE IS OVER MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOVER BECAUSE THE VIOLENCE WILL NEVER BE OVER IN IRAQ.

U.S. MARINES IN IRAQ. REAL WAR VIDEO: WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC

The United States Marine Corps have always distinguished themselves in battle and in Iraq they continue to display the type of courage and honor they deserve as seen in this VERY GRAPHIC video showing U.S. Marines in battle in Iraq.

http://www.youtube.com/v/enm9Dhp79Vk&hl=en

IRAQ WAR. (THE GREATEST WAR VIDEO EVER)

This video is hailed as the greatest war video ever made about the Iraq war. It is one you won't want to miss and perhaps even keep for future reference.

http://www.youtube.com/v/iRb7XxuxH_o&hl=en